IN OUR JOURNEY

          "In Our Journey" This is about the Children of Israel and their journey fleeing Egypt. They were in bondage of 430 years. Their flight took them into the Wilderness for 40 years because of their disobedience. 
          The idea and information for this article was taken from the 5th Sabbath School Lesson of the latest quarterly.  October 30, 2021.  The scriptures that were given to study were Exodus 12:37-41, 13:17-22 and Romans 8:12-17.
          Exodus 12:37 says there were about 600,000 on foot that were men, besides the children. 
          Verse 38 - there was also a mixed multitude that went up with them, as well as herds, and cattle. Read also Numbers 11:40 - this mixed multitude caused the beginning of the trouble among the Children of Israel. 
         Verse 40 - The Children of Israel sojourned in Egypt 430 years.
         Verse 42 - When they fled it was night time, and the Night of the Lord was to be celebrated unto the Lord for bringing them out of Egypt.  It was to be observed at night by all of the Children of Israel in their generations. (not by our generations)
          Verse 43 - The Lord told Moses and Aaron "This is the ordinance of the Passover (not a law)". When Christ came and died on the cross the ordinances contained or written in the laws were done away with. They were no longer in effect. 
          Verse 45 - a foreigner (a person not born of the children of Israel.) 
and a hired servant shall not eat there of.
          Verse 46 - In one house shall it be eaten; don't carry out of the house any flesh or do not break any bones.
          Verse 51 - and it came to pass in that day the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, by their armies.
          Exodus 13:10 - They were to keep this ordinance (Passover) in his season from year to year. (not weekly) 
          Verse 4 - The night (the lesson said day) of the Passover was in the month of Abib.  When they got to the Land of Canaan, they were to keep this service (Passover) in the month of Abib.
          Verse 8 - They were to show their children the Passover that the Lord did to them, when they came out of Egypt.
          Verse 20 - The Children of Israel took their journey from the shore of the Red Sea to Succoth and encamped in Etham in the edge of the wilderness. 
          Exodus 14:4 - The Lord told Moses he would harden Pharaoh's heart and Pharaoh and his host would come after them.  God would follow Pharaoh and his host as they came after the Children of Israel to let them know that God was Lord. 
          Verse 5 - The King's men told him that the Children of Israel had fled, and God hardened his heart and he turned against the Children of Israel once more, and he perused after them. He was very angry that he had let them go to worship their God.
          Verse 17 - God continued to tell Moses what would happen as His people fled Egypt. It happened just as God had told Moses it would.  He hardened Pharaoh's heart and the hearts of the Egyptians and Pharaoh
perused the Children of Israel.
          Verse 18 - God told Moses He would do this to show Pharaoh and the Egyptians that HE was Lord.
          Verse 19 - The angel of God, which went before the camp, turned and went behind them, and the pillar of the cloud went from leading them to behind them.
          Verse 20 - The cloud came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel.  It was a dark cloud to the Egyptians, but gave light at night to the Children of Israel. This was so that one army didn't come in contact with the other all the night when the Children of Israel fled Egypt. 
          Verse 21 - God told Moses to stretch out his hand over the (Red) sea and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, the waters were divided and made the sea dry land.
          Verse 23 - The Egyptians went after the Israelites and followed them into the midst of the sea...
          Verse 25 - The Egyptians took the wheels off of their chariots, and drove them with no wheels into the sea and said, Let us flee from the face of Israel: for the Lord fought for them against the Egyptians.
          Verse 27 - The Lord told Moses to stretch forth his hand again over the sea, and the waters returned to the sea and when morning came the Egyptians fled against the waters and were overthrown by the Lord in the middle of the waters of the sea.
          Verse 28 - And the waters retuned and covered Pharaoh and all his host of Egyptians and they drowned , there remained not so much as one of them.
          Verse 30 - The Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
          Verse 31 - Israel saw the great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and his servant Moses.
          As we know from history, this wouldn't last.  The Israelites continued to mumble and complain and disobey and turn their backs on the Lord and said they wanted to go back from where they came. That is why God didn't take them straight into the Promise Land of Canaan.  He let them wander in the wilderness until all of the original ones who fled from Egypt had died.

posted by *Starlight*


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